Device for the application of power



' April 7,1925. 1,532,191

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PATENT OFFICE.

ELMER E. LEMING, OF SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH.

DEVICE FOR THE APPLICATION OF POWER.

Application filed March 10, 1924. Serial No. 698,073.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ELMER E. LEMING, a citizen of the United States, and residing at Salt Lake City and county, State of Utah, whose post-ofiice address is #231 West North Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah, have invented a new and useful Device for the Application of Power, of which the following is a specification.

Fig. I is a plan view of the machine. Fig. II is the cross section of the machine. 1 is a concrete foundation and pit lining. 2 is a supporting frame of structural steel channels. 3 is a castiron plate bolted secure- 15 ly to frame 2. 3 is a rounded track around circular opening in plate 3. 4: is a castiron frame bolted to plate 3, carries motor 5 and driving gears 7 and 8. 5 is an electric motor to drive the machine. 6 is a pillow block for motor shaft. 7 is a bevel pinion keyed to motor shaft driving bevel gear 8. 8 is a bevel gear which carries socket block 11. 9 is a shaft carrying gear 8 and revolves in bearing cast in 4 and hangs on ball bear- 5 ing by means of block 10. 10 is a castiron block revolving on ball bearing hanging shaft 9. 11 is a lug or blockcast on gear 8 with socket for ball knob on top of shaft 13. 12 is a grooved wheel mounted on shaft 13 with ball bearings and runs on rounded track 3 13 is a cold rolled shaft. 1% is a forged steel T keyed and set screwed. to shaft 13, carrying shaft 15. 15 is a cold rolled shaft carrying weight 16. 16 is a cast iron weight securely fastened to shaft 15. 17 is a universal joint connecting shafts 14. and 20. 18 is a cast iron frame bolted to foot plate 23. 19 is a bevel gear keyed to shaft 20. 20 is a cold rolled shaft carrying foot bearing and power gear 19. 21 is a cast iron block keyed to shaft 20 running on ball bearings. 22 is a bevel pinion running in gear 19 keyed to shaft 24. 23 is a cast iron foot plate bolted to concrete foundation carrying foot bearing and frame 8. 24 is a cold rolled shaft. 25 is a belt pulley for driving other machinery, keyed to shaft 241:. 26 is a pillow block for shaft 2-1. 27 are anchor bolts for fastening plate 23 to concrete foundation.

When the small electric motor 5 starts the gear Whee1s8 to revolving,the top of shaft 13 is immediately tipped and shaft 15, with the weight 16 on the end, is drawn by means of gravity to its natural position. As the top of the shaft 13 is continually in lead of shaft 15 and weight 16, there is continually agreat pressure on a long leverage which gives great power through the means of gravity on the heavy weight which has a great leverage on the shaft.

The ball and socket joint 11 and the universal joint. 17 are necessary so as to let the weight lag behind its natural swinging position. The motor 5 is geared to the bevel controlling gear wheel 8 which gear 8 controls shaft 13 which shaft carries power shaft 15 which carries weight 16 which gears into and drives power shaft 20 which is con nected through the bevel gears 19 and '22 which connect bevel gear and pulley shaft 24 with pulley 25 and a belt from 25 drives other machinery. It is understood that the pit within which the shafts 13, 15, 20 and 24 revolve is as near as may be vacuum.

What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is .A horizontal gear wheel, means for rotating same, a propeller shaft attached to the underside of such gear wheel by a ball and socket joint, and at the other end attached by universal joint to a continuation of such shaft, the continuation of such shaft carrying a gear revolving therewith, means for imparting the rotation of said last mentioned gear to other machinery, a shaft carrying a weight at its outer end rigidly attached to the lower part of first mentioned shaft just above the universal joint, means for preventing the first mentioned shaft from being thrust by centrifugal motion so far outwardly as to cause a strain or stress on the first mentioned gear and a tank in which said machinery rotates, substantially as shown and described.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this 1st day of March, 192 1.

*ELMER E. LEMING.

W'itness:

JOSEPH H. Hui- .1). 

